Kmart: Australian supermarket pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag
bbc.co.uk
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/5301538
Archived version: https://archive.ph/BayAw
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231109053322/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67361888
Oh. "Ham-mas" sounds like "Hamas." I was trying to figure out why Jews wanted Christmas food to be kosher.
For fuck sake, it's a ham bag with Christmas trees on it, Kmart should have told them to pull their heads out of their arses.
Idk this was pretty funny, the corporate panic makes it funnier.
You just know there's some poor advertising peon getting yelled at rn, even though not one person in the office put the dots together.
Reminds me of how the Danish (?) organic snacks company now known as Easis was still called Isis long after those letters became toxic.
Personally I found the prospect of terrorists making and selling organic muesli bars pretending to be healthy absolutely hilarious 😂
What's toxic about an egyptian goddess? 😜 (to be fair, the terrorist group is called IS, and calling it ISIS was always a bit weird)
Well Danish news first called it ISIS, then ISIL and then IS. Now they usually use the whole name Islamic State, but in Danish.
They pretended to be healthy? Wanna bet they’re awful?
Maybe they should mail them to terrorists. You know. As a weapon against morale
They're actually very tasty. Tons of sugar in them to achieve that, though.
Why am I not surprised?
Oh well. Guess weird mailing those rice cake thingies that taste like styrofoam
My friends had a CI wear a wire for a fucking weed sale, but they were watching Archer at the time he was there to pick up. Led to some hilarious questions from idiot cops.
Few months ago no one would have noticed and now the entire stock will likely go into landfill.
Fucking ridiculous!
"Hammy Holidays" would have been the obvious choice
That took me 20 seconds.
same here, roughly
So Kmart is still a thing, who knew?
Totally different company to the US version.
I thought Jews had a sense of humor...
lol
I mean, it's a fair cop. "Hey guys, not sure if you've noticed this, but..."
It wouldn't surprise me if Wesfarmers overreacted to their message because of who it was from, too.
I think our friend here was loling at "pulled [pork]".
What it was supposed to mean? I can only read ’Merry Hamas’
Just like people rewrite the phrase as "Merry Xmas" or non-christ substitutes like cats in "Merry Kitmas", they were trying to make a ham-holiday. A Mass made of Ham. A Ham Mass/feast. Sadly, there is a war on so anything close to 'Hamas' is no longer suitable for mass-market humor.
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